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6 MARINE REVIEW. Sse toapcutnencnielrcroerulonemaesgunpnosnaesnsomesinmsiensiinssnsesnssbeseceinssisasnstnnnnSE oe scale net ov RHO CHICAGO LAKE INTERESTS. WESTERN OFFICE, MARINE REVIEW, t No. 210 So. Water Street, CHICAGO, IIL, Nov. 26, Never, perhaps, in the history of the package freight traffic has there been such a rush as at present. The loss to the Union Line by reason of the Chemung losing her rudder will be most serious, as it will interfere with all the plans of handling its share of the great traffic. Some ofthe . lines have been endeavoring to secure outside boats to carry package freight for the balance of the season, but they have not met with success, It is quite likely, however, that the Ogdensburg Transit Company’s steamers, which are to winter here, will make a trip to Buffalo and return for, some of the other lines, when the time is too short for a round trip to Ogdensburg. There is a good deal of talk going around about boats to carry passen- gers between Jackson park and the center of the city during the World’s Fair. One enterprising fellow in New York announces that he has formed a company to buildimmense steamers,fitted up with all hotel accomodations, for the traffic. They are to have three decks, and be something immense. Other schemes are on foot here for building immense boats or ferries for the trade. Now, as a matter of fact, the fair will begin in May and end in October. For the first month and a half there will be no traffic by lake, and under ordinary conditions no one is going to sail a boat to Jackson park after September 10. The boats that are planned will have to pay for themselves inside of three months. Chicago weather is most uncertain, and during at least a third of the three months the lake will be too rough to attract people for a ride, when they can go by cars much quicker. ‘The boats will have to pay for themselves in this limited time, because as they are now talked of they will be of no use anywhere else. It may be that some capitalists will be sanguine enough to put two or three million dol- lars into such boats, butI don’t believe it. The whole thing is wind. ' There are enough boats already on the lakes to take every man woman and child who visits the World’s Fair by the water route to Jackson park and return. It will require no great effort to get an adequate fleet here to care for that traffic, without discommoding the regular passenger business. If, however, some enthusiast has sufficient pull to enlist capital into building a large number of steamers for the Fair, every legitimate line will be the sufferers afterward. The new boats will still be here after their occupation is gone, and some place must be found to run them. The result cannot be but the total demoralization of passenger traffic all over the Great Lakes. It would bea calamity, which could not be too greatly deplored. The new style of steamer that seems to be coming into fashion will, in the opinion of many marine men here, seem like a monstrosity. It may be that perfectly straight decks will not look so bad as some think, but they will violate every principle of accepted marine architecture. In the end, it seems probable that the style will be short-lived, and that -shipbuilders will continue to construct boats as their forefathers have done before them. Rehearing in Armour-Marion Case. ; Special Correspondence to the MARINE REVIEW. _ MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. 26.—The Armour-Marion collision case has again come to the surface in the United States district court for the east- ern district of Wisconsin. Counsel for the Marion have filed a petition for a rehearing. The petitioners ask that the interlocutory decree entered in the cause be vacated and set aside for a rehearing and reconsideration upon the ground that in its consideration by the court an actual misap- prehension or mistake in regard to the facts proved had been made in the following particulars: First—From the conclusion of the court regardin g the theory on the part of the Marion that just before the collision the Ar- mour put her helm hard to starboard. Second—From the conclusion of the conrt “it is claimed by those on the Armour that she was 200 to 300 feet from the American shore, and that within a distance of half a mile until colliding the Marion showed both her lights.” Third—From the conclusion of the court, “I am satisfied that the Armour was further out toward the channel than anyone speaking for her has stated.” Fourth— From the conclusion of the court, “that both lights of the vessels were observable to each other until a moment before the collision.” Fifth— From the conclusion of the court, “that the Marion twice sounded two blasts of het whistle, once in reply to the Mt. Clemens and once in reply to the Armour.” Sixth—From the conclusion of the court, “that at the time the vessels were one mile apart, and when the Armour blew her first signal, the Marion was nearer the American shore than the Armour,” Seventh—From the conclusion of the court, “that when within half a mile of each other the Armour blew one blast of her whistle and then or soon after stopped her engine.” It will be remembered that immediately after having rendered the decision holding both the Armour and Marion at fault and ordering a division of the damages Judge Jenkins started on a trip to Europe. This was in June last. He returned again in September, and since then has been an invalid. At onetime quite recently it was thought that he would die, but he is now advancing rapidly toward con- valescence and may svon be able to resume his place on the bench. When iinet AAA eg that time arrives the petition for a rehearing will no doubt be one of the first mattere to receive his attention. F. Kraus & Co., lessees of the St, Paul A elevator to which the heavy shortages referred to last week were credited, expressed themselves satis- fied that the errorsin weight rest with their house and will settle as soon as statements of reweighing, accompanied by necessary affidavits, are re- ceived from Buffalo and Oswego. Following is a correct statement of the shortages which they will be called upon to make good; Steamer John Duncan 287 bushels of barley, steamer Hecla 872 bnshels of barley, steamer Helena 537 bushels of oats and 579 bushels of barley, 1,116 bu- shels in all, steamer Marion 1,888 bushels of barley, making a grand to- tal of 4,163 bushels on four cargoes. To this settlement must be added 200 bushels of flax seed which the steamer Helena fell short on a previous trip. The schooner City of Erie, which recently went to pieces at Gill’s Pier, Mich., was originally a Canadian bottom, having been built in the 50’s near Kingston. She first bore the name Liverpool, and this was sub- sequently changed to Toronto. Later on the craft fell into United States marshal’s hands at Erie, and after sale under the hammer she was Ameri- canized and her name changed to City of Erie. The old craft was always an eye-sore to those who owned her, and never made any one rich. A New Lumber Carrier. Special Correspondence to the MARINE REVIEW. SHEBOYGAN, Wis., Nov. 26.—Rieboldt, Wolter & Co. are getting ready to lay the keel of a steamer designed particularly for the lumber trade, She will have 165 feet keel, a length over allof 180 feet, 34 feet beam and 11 feet hold. Toovercome what will strike experienced vessel men as a very weak point in the craft, viz., her shoalness, the hullis to be diago- nally cross-strapped and provided with heavy steel arches. It is also the intention to give her floor more than ordinary strength. She is to have a steeple compound engine with cylinders 20 and 32 inches in diameter and 36inches stroke. Steam is to be furnished by a marine boiler 8 feet in diameter and 14 feet long. In general appearance the craft will resemble the John Schroeder, built at the same yard, although she is to be some- what sharper with the view of attaining speed. Her carrying capacity is figured at 650,000 feet. The steamer will be the property of the builders, with Conrad Starke as managing owner. Capt. Breyman and others of Toledo have made overtures for the pur- chase of the new dredge of the Sheboygan Dredging and Docking Com- pany. No Need of a Water Gauge at Marquette. Mr. Preston C. F. West, engineer of the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company, Calumet, Mich.,calls the attention of the muni- cipal authorities of Marquette to the fact that the height of Lake Superior above mean tide at New York is 601.78 feet and that the government engineers, in establishing this and other important matters regarding lake levels, caused land levels to be run from the sea datum plane up the Hudson river and along the lakes to Marquette, bench marks being placed at various points for future reference. He points out the location of a number of these marks in Marquette and suggests that with their aid a water gauge, showing variations in the level of Lake Superior, could be placed on the wharves at Marquette, where it could be consulted at alltimes. It has been said in this connection that such water gauges at Marquette, Duluth and other points on Lake Superior might be used to guide masters of vessels as to the depth to which they might load before proceeding with cargoes to the Sault canal, but such a scheme is not practicable and little benefit could come from it. Variations in the levels’of the lakes, excepting the temporary rise and fall caused by winds, are gradual, and such of them as come in a single season extend over along period, so that the draft of vessels navigating the Sault canal is not changeable by hours or days. The vessel master bound up through the canal is fully informed as to how deep he can load on the return trip, and water gauges at Marquette or Duluth would be of no use to him. If the municipal authorities desire to keep a record of the Lake Superior water level by means of the establishment of a gauge there is, of course, no ob- jection to their doing so, but it isa question whether it. would be any practical benefit to anyone. ‘The government engineers on the lakes have for years kept records of th i Fae e places where it is necessary that they should be tg aoe Sena : : HB se 75 cents to the MARINE REVIEW for a binder that will hold 52 ® 0 ees